Workman s time-recorder



UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

MAHLON M. ZELLERS, OF KENT, OHIO.

WORKMANS TIME-RECORDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,412, dated October 22, 1895.

Application filed February 1, 1894. Serial No. 498,717. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAHLON M. ZELLERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kent, in the county of Portage and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time-Recorders; and I do hereby declare that the followingisafull,clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to time-recorders and is an improvement on the invention described and claimed in Letters Patent issued to me November 14:, 1893, No. 508,461, and on the invention set forth in my application for Letters Patent filed August 7, 1893, Serial No. $2,530.

Theimprovements herein consistinthe con struction and combination of certain parts, all substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved machine; and Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, taken on a line corresponding substantially to :0, Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3 3, Fig. 2, and looking from right to left in said figure and showing the actuating-lever in a position of rest. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional elevation of the machine, looking from left to right and taken substantially on line 4 4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical central sectional elevation on the line of the shaft of the main cylinder and of the mechanism connected with the ends of said cylinder and shaft and having the middle part of the cylinder broken out and the ends brought near together. Fig. 6 is a cross-section on a line corresponding to 6 6, Fig. 5, looking outward and showing the spring and mechanism for applying power to said cylinder. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the actuating-lever and certain details of parts associated therewith. Fig. 8 is a perspective detail of the puncturingfinger alone. Fig. 9 is a section of the serrated bar K.

In certain particulars there are parts and association of parts which in the main may resemble like parts disclosed in the patent or application for patent hereinabove referred to, and these in themselves, or in combinations which are old and disclosed, are of course not claimedheretobenovel. I-Iowever,thestructure herein shown and described, in so far as its operating mechanism is concerned, is substantially novel throughout.

The case A of the machine is made long enough to include the clock at one end thereof, and over the top and front of the cylinder B is a transparent lid or cover 0, curved in crosssection, as shown, and serving not only as a lid or cover, but as a window when closed, through which the cylinder enveloped by the time-sheet and the end of the puncturing finger are clearly seen and the fact that a record by puncturing has been made.

The cylinder B is supported upon the shaft D, and in order that rotation of the cylinder shall not become an extra tax to the clock with which it is geared and by which it is timed I provide at one end thereof a powerspring E, which is fixed at one end to a hub upon the shaft D and at the other end to an inclosing support or cap F, resting on a hub on the casing and having handles or arms 2 to rotate said cap and thus wind up the spring. A suitable dog 3 is arranged to engage lugs or projections 4 on said cap and hold the same at whatever point it may be rotated to. In this way I am enabled to make the spring E do the Work of turning the cylinder B and the shaft D, instead of devolving this labor upon the clock mechanism, as heretofore. The cap F is held against backward rotation by the dog 3, so that it does not move when the cylinder turns.

The cylinder B is adapted to be turned upon the shaft D independently thereof, but is frictionally engaged so closely thereon that when the machine is operating the two parts will turn together, the same as if the cylinder were rigidly fastened upon the shaft. Freedom of rotation of the cylinder is necessary in order to set the cylinder in time with the clock. WVhen set, it will continue to rotate and keep time with the clock until run down. Said cylinder further has a series of concentric grooves or channels about its periphery, as heretofore, and is adapted to receive the time-sheet or cover with puncturing-lines over the said channels or grooves, so that the puncturing-point may penetrate the same Without being injured. This in itself is not new.

G represents a longitudinal rod having the main operating-lever H slidable thereon, as formerly, so as to make the record at any desired registering point, and this lever has a counterweighted end 6, so as to hold the lever normally out of engaging position, as seen in Fig. 1. A tooth or serrated bar K extends longitudinally of the machine, parallel with red G, and has serrations or notches corresponding to the subdivisions indicated by marks and numbers on the indicate plate or surface L. This plate has numbers from one up to twenty-five, or a hundred, accordingto size of machine, and each person has his own number. Then the lever H has been moved to registering position and is depressed, the point 8 is thrown up into the corresponding serration in plate K and prevents movement of the lever on shaft or red G. Now when this occurs the puncturing-fingerNis brought into action. This finger, it will be seen, is at the front of the machine and cylinder B and stands up in plain view and alone, with its sharp puncturing-point 9 in position to show its action and to show, also, the hole it makes in the time-slip. Every one can,therefore, see his own registration and can know that it certainly is made at the right place. This finger is pivoted in the lever H on shaft G and is held in place by side piece 10 on lever H. At its lower end it has a notch or hook 12, engaging the lower edge of longitudinal plate or piece 0, pivoted centrally at its ends, and the lever H has a bottom projection 13, engaging the upper edge of this plate. Then as the lever is depressed it turns the plate 0 in its pivot and forces its lower edge back and thereby forces the finger N into puncturing position on the time-slip over cylinder B. Then the instant the person lifts his finger from lever H the parts resume their normal position, as seen in Fig. 1. This operation of the parts also actnates the hammer of the bell S, and so the bell sounds the registration.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The main frame and the longitudinal red at its front, the lever slidable on said rod, the puncturing finger pivoted on said rod and slidable thereon, and mechanism between said lever and said finger to actuate the finger when the lever is depressed, substantially as set forth.

2. The construction described, consisting of the main casing, the revolving cylinder, the longitudinal rod and the actuating lever pivoted and slidable thereon, a pivoted part parallel with said rod, and the said lever constructed to engage along the upper edge of said part, and a puncturing finger pivoted on said rod and having one end extending up in front of the time cylinder and the other end engaged with the actuating mechanism from the lever, substantially as set forth.

3. In a time recording machine, the main casing having a transparent covering extending along the front thereof in front of the time recording cylinder, in combination with said time recording cylinder, the puncturing finger exposed through said transparent covering in front of said cylinder, a shaft on which said finger is free to slide to register at any point on the cylinder and confined within the easing, and a separately pivoted sliding lever on the main shaft to actuate said finger, substantially as set forth.

4:. In the machine described, the main casing and the timeslip cylinder, mechanism to rotate said cylinder, a longitudinal shaft along the front of the machine and cylinder, an operating lever movable to different positions on said shaft and a separate puncturing finger interlocked with said lever and movable back and forth therewith, substantially as set forth.

5. The machine described, comprising the main casing and the cylinder and the time slip about the same, in combination with the shaft G, the actuating lever H- arranged to slide thereon, the puncturing finger N- operated by said lever, the part O pivoted to rotate and the extension -12- rigid with the finger N- and engaging the part O, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination of the casing, the main shaft and the cylinder thereon, with the shaft G, the counterweight lever 6- sliding on said shaft and having extension 13 below its pivot, the serrated bar -K and the projection -S to engage the same and stop the sliding movement of said lever, the puncturing finger -N arranged to slide with lever Hand having the notched projection-12- rigid therewith, and the pivoted part O extending from end to end of the casing and engaged by lever -6 and projection -12-, substantially as set forth.

WVitness my hand to the foregoing specification this 22d day of January, 1894.

MAHLON M. ZELLERS.

Witnesses:

L. G. REED, SETH TODD. 

